Clerk at Nordstrom in Short Hills arrested on suspicion of pocketing cash from sales

MILLBURN -- A sales clerk at the Nordstrom in the Short Hills Mall is suspected of pocketing nearly $10,000 from store registers in just over a month, Millburn police reported today.

Jenofa E. Tyson, of Newark, was arrested on Dec. 19 for allegedly taking $9,958.68 starting Nov. 13, her first day at work in the store’s shoe department, police said. Tyson, 27, was taken into custody after store personnel saw her take money on several different occasions, including on the day of her arrest.

On that day, Nordstrom employees told police they watched Tyson make a cash sale just before noon, crumple up the bills and put them in her pocket. Later that afternoon, Tyson rung up a gift card sale and pocketed the cash, Nordstrom told police. Those alleged thefts totaled $535, police said.

Nordstrom personnel recovered the cash and then called police. Tyson was charged with theft of moveable property and released pending a court date after she paid bail on warrants in Newark and Irvington.